Funding
xAI Eyes Massive $15 Bn Raise in December to Buy More GPUs
The deadline for investors to commit funds has reportedly been extended to December 19, 2025, giving backers an additional window to enter.
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Acquisition
Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus Acquires AI Agent Startup General Agents to Advance Manufacturing Automation
Project Prometheus has raised $6.2 billion from a consortium of investors that includes Bezos.
Lay Offs
HP Announces Around 6000 Global Workforce Reductions to Pivot Toward AI-driven Operations
The announced layoffs will primarily affect teams in product development, internal operations, and customer support.
Indian IT
TCS Extends Global Partnership with ALDI SOUTH to Strengthen IT Infrastructure and Automation
As part of the expanded collaboration, TCS will implement its AI-enabled Cloud Operations Solution and advanced digital services to modernise and stabilise ALDI SOUTH’s IT landscape.
AI Startups
Character AI Launches “Stories” — A New Interactive Storytelling Format After Barring Minors from Converse with Chatbots
With Stories, users choose two or three characters, select a genre, and write or auto-generate a story premise.
Partnerships
Warner Music Group Reaches Settlement, Forms Major Partnership with AI Music Platform Suno
WMG sued Suno and fellow AI startup Udio last year, accusing them of “widespread infringement” of copyrighted recordings on an “almost unimaginable scale.”
Acquisition
Snowflake Acquires Metadata Platform Select Star to Boost AI-Driven Data Discovery
Select Star, founded by CEO Shinji Kim, brings tools that track where data comes from, how it's used, and by whom — turning raw data into rich, usable context.
Data Centre
Amazon Commits $50 Bn to Boost AI & Supercomputing for U.S. Federal Agencies
The investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of compute capacity using advanced networking and compute technologies.
AI Models
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 4.5, Its Most Capable AI Model Yet
The model also offers stronger support for long-running agentic workflows, making it well-suited for tasks such as multi-hour application rewriting.
AI Models
Microsoft Unveils Fara-7B — A Compact AI Agent That Uses Your PC Like a Human
Fara-7B visually perceives webpages through screenshots and uses a simulated mouse and keyboard to scroll, click, and type.
Partnerships
Zendesk Launches Agent 365 and Copilot Integrations to Transform Employee Service
As a launch partner for Microsoft Agent 365, Zendesk will bring its AI agents into Microsoft’s secure environment.
Chips
U.S. Charges Four in Scheme to Illegally Export NVIDIA GPUs to China
They allegedly sent 400 NVIDIA A100 GPUs to China via transshipment hubs in Malaysia and Thailand.